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Finishing What the Pope Started in Magnifica Humanitas by Connie Chen

Applying the theology of Pope Leo XIV's encyclical to the bodies it cannot see.

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Male Brides of Christ by Connie Chen

A Pride Month Series Pt. 1

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Menstrual Theology of Resurrection by Connie Chen

Lessons from Endometrium Research

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Select Publications

For those lucky enough to grow old with life partners, they learn the kind of care that is kind and gracious. When the caretaker does not suffer to perform care, the one who receives care is unburdened from becoming a burden and learns to receive it as love. For those of us who have disabled bodies, we are lucky enough to learn that now.
— Love (and Food) Actually, America's Test Kitchen Proof Podcast

No one looks at you when you are ugly. You know you are because you are looked through—rendered invisible to the ones who look away, and made into spectacle by the ones who devour your decaying meat with disgust.
— Difficult Images, Frictions Media

I cannot and do not wish to master, overcome, and transform my body. I can and must live with my lupus, accept my body, and ask to be accepted as I am.
— The Virus You Forgot to Panic For, Harvard Crimson
Tarwater drowns the body, but many hands from the corpus of criticism have been holding Bishop’s corpse underwater.
— The Deaths of Bishop Rayber: Drowning Normalcy in The Violent Bear It Away, The Flannery O'Connor Review